Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung a few evenings later by Andrew Johnson, soon became the big camp-meeting hymn throughout the State of Maine...
When John Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 for his Harper's Ferry raid, Thomas Brigham Bishop happened to be in nearby Martinsburg. Taking paper & pencil he dashed off the crude verses of John Brown's Body Lies a-Mould' ring in the Grave, set them to the music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after...
Eliot, Robert S. Chafee '36 and Francis G. Brigham '37; Kirkland, Shaun Kelly '36; Leverett, Frederick A. Webster '35 and Ralph Kaltenborn '37; Lowell, Arthur W. Todd '35; Winthrop, Frank Vincent...
Died. Mrs. Maria Y. Dougall, 84, oldest surviving daughter of Mormon Brigham Young; in Salt Lake City. Of the 56 children born to Young and his 19 wives, four sisters and two brothers survive...
...Angel '36, John E. Ashley '37, William J. Baker '36, Robert R. Barker '36, Edward L. Barnes '38, Donald I. Bell '37, Leslie C. Bigelow '36, John L. Bishop '37, Bruce O. Bliveu, Jr. '37, David D. Bonnet '37, John W. Bowden '36, Lomuel Bowden, Jr. '36, Francis G. Brigham, Jr. '37, Edward M. Brooks '37, James H. Brooks '38, George W. Brown '37, Thomas A. Buffum '37, John H. Burns '37, William G. Burt...